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1. Senior year, babe

Zoe Hart stood in front of the mirror looking at her reflection. She was wearing simple light denim shorts, a green tank top and a white cardigan over it. Her hair fell free down over her shoulders. She looked damn good, to say so herself.

"Zoe, breakfast"

"Yeah, I'm coming." With one last glance in the mirror, she grabbed her bag and headed downstairs.

As usual on the first day of school, her dad had made pancakes for breakfast. As they sat down, she noticed that he was unusually nervous.

"Dad, what's the matter?" Zoe asked as she dove into the pancakes.

Harley rubbed his hands together as to whipe the nervous sweat of them, placed them by his side, looked at her and said: "Zoe, you know how over the summer I've grown close to Mrs. Lawrence..." he trailed off and Zoe looked at him and couldn't help but let out a small laugh.

"Common, dad. Mrs. Lawrence? No offense, but calling your girlfriend by her last name is simply ridiculous."

"What, no, she's not my girlfriend"

"Please, I'm not an idiot, you know"

"No, I never said you were" he said, a bit flustered.

"Well, what were you going to say about Pauline" she said teasingly.

"Well, you know, now that autumn has come and she does not need to look after little miss Rose Hattenbarger she has no reason to stay in Bluebell." Harley stopped and waited for Zoe to say something. She however did not. She enjoyed watching her dad struggle through this, it was every teenager's dream to have the roles reversed once in a while. Finally Harley realized he had to go on.

"So, uhm, I really do not want her to leave, so I was maybe, if you'd be all right with it, going to maybe ask if she'd maybe consider moving here, and, uhm, live here with us." He let out a big sigh of relief as he finally got it all out.

"Yeah, sure, I like Pauline, go for it"

"Really"

"Yeah, but you totally owe me one" Zoe said with a smirk. She really did not have any objections to Pauline moving in, she liked her and she liked how happy she made her dad, but there was no harm in making sure she got something extra out of it.

"Well, Jonah actually has a home here in Bluebell so he won't be needing to move in here" Harley said smirking back. He was no fool.

Zoe just shook her head at him and finished her pancakes. Just then a car honked outside.
"Well, looks like Jonah's here, seeya later, dad" Zoe said, giving her dad a quick peck on the cheek and rushing out the door. Jonah's brand new Mustang was parked in the driveway.

"Hey, babe" Zoe said as she jumped in the car and gave Jonah a quick kiss.

"Ready to go back to school?" he asked as he backed the car out of the drive.

"Yeah, it's senior year, it'll be great!" Zoe said as she turned on the radio.

Wade Kinsella rushed into the school just as the bell rung. He just managed to sneak in before the teacher reached his name in the role-call. As he made his way to the back he couldn't help but notice the disapproving look he got from Zoe Hart. He just snorted at it. What was it her business that he was almost late. Not everyone has a perfect dad, perfect friends, perfect boyfriend or a perfect bloody life.

"Good morning everyone and welcome back. Before we begin Miss Lemon Breeland has requested the floor"

The teacher gestured to Lemon, sitting in her usual front row seat. She got up, looking just as much the southern Belle as always. Wade couldn't help but smile. He knew she was not the perfect young girl that everyone thought.

"Greetings, fellow seniors. This is our last year here at Cyrus Lavinius Jeremiah Jones High School and we should make it our duty to make it as memorable as we can. To start with, I want to remind everyone that tonight is Senior Prank Night, don't worry Mr. Lawrence, we'll keep it light, and it is important that everyone show up. Then of course there is the annual Back-to-school dance that will be held two weeks from now. And don't forget, if you have an idea just come find me and I'll discuss it with the Belles and see if we can't make it happen. Go seniors!" she finished with a cheer and sat down to rather unenthusiastic applause.

Wade had barely listened to Lemon. Sure, senior prank night sounded like it could be fun, but maybe not when perfect Lemon was in control. He knew there would be no sight of the fun Lemon in a school related event. Even if it was meant to be fun. Anyways, he wasn't so excited about making memories. He did not want to remember all those people. In a year they'd be gone off to college or whatever and he'd be left alone in Bluebell working at his dad's garage. He sighed and looked at the clock. Only 55 minutes left of the class.

The day had gone by rather quickly, catching up with friends that had gone out of Bluebell in the summer, coming up with suggestions for Prank Night, dreaming of the perfect dress for the dance. Zoe was still giggeling to herself as she walked home thinking about a joke that Addie had said involving a frog and an umbrella. As she turned into her street she saw her annoying neighbor Wade walking out of his shipwreck of a car.

"What, Jonah didn't bother giving you a ride back home to" he called out to her in a mock tone.

"He was to busy, actually bothering with showing up for football practice" she shot back.

"Yeah, maybe I'm to busy for practice"

"Doing what exactly, stripping in front of a mirror?"

"Maybe, wanna join?"

"You're an idiot" Zoe said and walked into her house, slamming the door behind her. Man, that boy irritated her. Just then her phone rang. It was Annabeth.

"Hey, AB, what's up?"

"Oh nothing, I was just calling to see if you were going to Prank Night"
"Of course. I think that Lemon would crucify me if I didn't, even if I'm her high school nemesis and all"

"Yeah, I guess"

They continued talking about Prank Night. Annabeth had become one of Zoe's best friends, but they were kind of closeted friends. See, Annabeth was one of the Belles and Lemon's best friend and they did not really run in the same crowd, but they'd grown close over the summer when most of their other friends had gone out of town.

"Anyway, I gotta go catch up with Lemon, see ya tonight"

Zoe hang up the phone and sighed. She really liked Annabeth, and she didn't really have a lot of girlfriends. She was kind of stuck in the middle. The Belles were all-in southern ladies and for the most part Zoe despised them, but she shared their love for Bluebell. Her "friends" were more her scene, but they all hated this small town and couldn't wait to graduate and move out of Bluebell as fast as they could. For some reason, Zoe did not share that feeling. Everyone thought she did though, even her dad. They all assumed that it was imprinted in her DNA to want to move to New York, seeing as her mother had grown up there and had intended to raise Zoe there. Her thoughts were interrupted when Harley came in.

"Hey, how was your day?"

"Oh, it was fine. The teachers gave us a boatload of homework hoping it would keep us from Prank Night. Oh, their simple minds. It only fueled our need to prank them" Zoe said with a smile.

"Well, I guess you'd better start working on some of it, so you'll actually get permission to go out" Harley said, also smiling, as they both knew that her going out was not a problem. They had a really good relationship and Harley knew he could trust his daughter.

"So, tonight's Senior Prank Night. Gonna put superglue on Mr. Turner's chair?"

"Even if I was going, which I'm not, I wouldn't copy your silly prank" Wade snapped at his older brother Jesse and walked out of the kitchen. Man, when was that punk going to leave. He was two years Wade senior and had just come home from fighting in Kosovo and was just taking a few weeks of relaxing before heading off to California to go to college. Wade despised him. He went of to fight for his country and came home with all the glory of being a war hero, leaving Wade to deal with their alcoholic mess of a father and then he came home to "relax", not lifting a hand to help with anything and expecting everyone to kiss his ass.

"You are seriously not going?" Jesse asked, having come into the living room after Wade.

"Yeah, I don't see the point in this stupid thing"

"Wade, it's your senior year. Time to make some memories"

"Why does everyone keep talking about those damn memories. What if I don't want to make memories?" Wade snapped at Jesse again and stormed out. The first thing he saw was Zoe jumping into her boyfriends car. Perfect.

"Hey Wade, wanna ride to school?" Jonah asked.

"No thanks, not going" Wade answered shortly and got into his car before they could say anything else.

"What's up with him"

"God knows. That Wade is one screwed up, annoying piece of work" Zoe said frustrated, but her voice held a little bit of pity and worry that Jonah didn't notice.

"Well, if he doesn't want to go that is his decision, who are we to judge" Jonah said as he drove off.

Hope you liked it. Thanks for the reviews, didn't really expect any for the prologue. Sorry if I disappointed some of you by jumping forward to late teens, am thinking about putting flashbacks and memories from when they were younger in, am just playing it as I go, haven't really got a solid idea.

Don't really know who of the Kinsella brothers is older, somehow it feels like Jesse's the older one. Got the idea of Senior Prank Night from the Vampire Diaries, thought it's a really cool idea.